English furniture

English furniture has developed largely in line with styles in the rest of northern Europe, but has been interpreted in a distinctive fashion. There were significant regional differences in style, for example between the North Country and the West Country.

Salisbury and Norwich were prominent early centres of furniture production.

Periods in English furniture design

  • Middle Ages
  • Elizabethan
  • Jacobean era
  • Restoration / Carolean
  • William and Mary
  • Queen Anne - see Queen Anne style furniture
  • Georgian
  • Victorian - see Victorian decorative arts
  • Art Deco
  • Modernist

    • See also

  • Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture
  • Sheraton style

    • References

    Further reading

  • Blake, John Percy; Reveirs-Hopkins, Alfred Edward (1930). Old English furniture for the small collector: its types, history and surroundings from mediaeval to Victorian times. B.T. Batsford ltd. p. 155. 
  • Bly, John; Knowles, Eric (2010). Knowles, Eric, ed. English Furniture. Shire Collections. Osprey Publishing. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-7478-0786-5. 
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